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Old May 2, 2011 | 7:26 pm
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Originally Posted by WebDesignGuy
I understand both sides of this issue, but I feel like there can definitely be a gray area. In some cases, it would come down to the intent of the person booking the travel, which isn't always easy to determine.

Someone mentioned a few pages ago, if a flyer regularly works somewhere Monday to Thursday, and lives somewhere Friday to Sunday, they could theoretically save money by booking the flight round trip Thursday to Sunday from the city they work in.

I know people that commute cross country with basically this exact schedule every week for over a year. I don't know how they book their tickets, but I would assume that some on here would say that if they booked round trips from their work location, it would be against the CoC.

For this to be against the CoC though, where the person lived and worked would have to be Delta's business, which is a slippery slope. One would need to claim that all RT travel should start where a person lives, and that's clearly ridiculous and none of Delta's business.
I think that would be fine. If I live in ATL and work in SFO, I would be able to buy a one-way ticket from ATL-SFO, then book round-trips every weekend SFO-ATL. Then when I stopped working in SFO, a one-way ticket back home.

What wouldn't be okay is:
Ticket #1: ATL-SFO (Monday, week 1), SFO-ATL (Friday, week 2)
Ticket #2: SFO-ATL (Friday, week 1), ATL-SFO (Monday, week 2)
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